Transcultural similarities between culture and the performing arts 

Coordinator: full professor Leo Rafolt, PhD

The research will focus on cultural transmission, meetings and hybridisation, pseudo-assimilation when in contact with different cultural traditions – within three contexts: post-dependent South Slavic (Alps – Danube – Adriatic Sea), Eurasian and postcolonial African. The notion of performance is defined as the meeting between the local and the global (glocal), i.e. between the traditional and the contemporary, the stable and mobile identities. The research will include a comparative analysis of performing practices, visual ethnography, case studies and the use of qualitative methods. The project addresses the use of the performing arts (theatre, dance, music ritual, performing body) as a medium that negotiates identities in spaces marked by migrations, colonial and postcolonial legacy, wars, hybrid linguistic and cultural structures as well as the contemporary challenges of sustainability.

There are currently no announcements for this subproject.